Cruising from the Middle East to Spain

These images were made during a three day visit to Egypt, followed by a 16 day cruise from Egypt to Spain, on the Regent Seven Seas Voyager in November, 2011. As always, I try to make images that offer not only a sense of place, but also convey my impressions of how each place I visit feels and functions. My goal here is not to make a comprehensive documentation of the places I visit, but instead offer a series of interpretive photographs that express the personality and character of places I visit, as I perceive them. There are eighty photographs in this gallery. These images were selected from the more than 7,000 digital pictures I shot during this trip. I used a twelve megapixel Panasonic Lumix GH2 camera to make many of these images, equipped with a 90-400mm image stabilized telephoto lens, allowing me to use it in low light situations with remarkable clarity. The camera's flip-out LCD viewfinder allows easy use at low and high angles, making an amazingly useful tool for travel photography. Other images were made with a very small Panasonic Lumix LX5 camera, which offers a fast f/2.0 lens and a 24-90mm zoom range. It fits into the palm of one hand, making it unobtrusive. I've edited all of these images with Adobe Lightroom 3 and Photoshop CS5 to correct and refine the hue, color, contrast and sharpness levels, hopefully making my pictures more vibrant and meaningful. Although all of these photographs were digitally enhanced to some degree, none of the content has been significantly manipulated. The facts are all here, as I captured them. I hope you will enjoy these photographic impressions.

To view my images at their best, just click the "slideshow" button in the top right hand corner. To end the slide show at any time, press your "escape" key. I welcome your comments and questions. Phil Douglis Director, The Douglis Visual Workshops, Phoenix, Arizona, pnd1@cox.net